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IQFeed Developer Support » Issue with throughput May 14, 2010 10:35 AM (Total replies: 2)

Something else just noticed: IQFeed seems to be saturating one processor worth of CPU time when receiving 900+KB/s of data (8 core machine, 4gb of ram). Memory usage does not significantly fluctuate. Could this also be a problem?

On Edit: To clarify, that is IQConnect.exe seems to saturate one core. Also, this is on 4.7.1.2 (beta).
Edited by parallelguy on May 14, 2010 at 10:55 AM

IQFeed Developer Support » Issue with throughput May 14, 2010 09:26 AM (Total replies: 2)

IQFeed seems to be having issues sustaining communications above 930-1000 KB/sec and thus seems to be losing data during very high volume periods.

I'm on a 22/6mbit cable modem, and have verified that I can sustain 22mbit speeds on both tcp and udp. I am subscribed to 576 symbols, which comprises of the S&P 500, some misc etf's and stocks, and the major futures. Regional updates are enabled for all stocks.

I suspect this may be some sort of TCP window problem, as experimenting with TCP window settings on windows 2008 r2 does seem to measurably affect the peak rate I can get out of IQFeed. Unfortunately, none of them seem to perform better then the default settings. Any ideas what I might try next?

IQFeed Developer Support » Today's tick feed has previous day's data? Mar 29, 2010 12:07 AM (Total replies: 7)

This example might better illustrate the point:

Quote:
20100328T211459.902159>Q,@ESM10,1163.25,0,10,1163.00,1163.50,114,40,16:14:59b,,
...
20100328T212336.109902>Q,@ESM10,1163.25,0,10,1163.00,1163.50,164,40,16:14:59b,,

To clarify my earlier comment: I had also been watching in real time in quote tracker, and it seems to be a systemic problem where quotes before the globex opening hours at 17:00 central on Sunday seem to pick a rather arbitrary time rather then give the correct time. Hope this is helpful.

IQFeed Developer Support » Today's tick feed has previous day's data? Mar 28, 2010 11:58 PM (Total replies: 7)

I'm pretty sure I also found this or a related error. It seems to be related somehow to quotes before markets open. Once globex officially opened (Sunday night), the weird timestamps went away.

From my custom log (Time is Date Time in UTC that the packet was received from IQfeed)

Quote:
20100328T211459.902159>Q,@ESU10,1158.75,0,1,1147.00,1161.50,1,1,16:14:21b,,
20100328T211459.902159>Q,@ESM10,1163.25,0,10,1163.00,1163.50,114,40,16:14:59b,,
20100328T211459.902159>Q,@NQU10,1943.25,0,5,1428.00,1956.00,5,1,15:25:33b,,
20100328T211459.902159>Q,@NQM10,1950.75,0,5,1948.50,1952.00,2,1,16:14:59b,,
20100328T211459.902159>Q,@ADM10,0.8967,0,1,0.8955,0.8970,4,1,16:59:40b,,
20100328T211459.902159>Q,@BPM10,1.4893,0,1,1.4887,1.4901,11,1,16:57:00b,,
20100328T211459.902159>Q,@ADU10,0.8862,0,3,0,0.9150,0,5,16:43:20a,,
20100328T211459.902647>Q,@BPU10,1.4883,0,1,1.4110,1.4953,1,1,16:56:36b,,
20100328T211459.902647>Q,@CDU10,0.9734,0,1,0.9700,0.9760,6,2,16:46:12b,,
20100328T211459.902647>Q,@CDM10,0.9742,0,2,0.9735,0.9749,1,1,16:59:55b,,
20100328T211459.902647>Q,@EUM10,1.3409,0,3,1.3402,1.3415,41,1,16:59:48b,,
20100328T211459.902647>Q,@MEM10,1.3414,0,1,1.3387,1.3428,1,1,16:58:30b,,
20100328T211459.902647>Q,@JYM10,0.010811,0,1,0.010799,0.010825,3,3,16:59:54b,,
20100328T211459.902647>Q,@JEM10,0.010813,0,1,0.010680,0.010869,1,1,16:44:50b,,
20100328T211459.902647>Q,@RUM10,0.33480,0,1,0,0.34200,0,1,09:42:55a,,
20100328T211459.902647>Q,@SFM10,0.9392,0,1,0.9383,0.9400,2,5,16:59:00b,,

IQFeed Developer Support » Regional quotes on no change Mar 25, 2010 08:58 PM (Total replies: 11)

Speaking of which: I found (I believe) another weird oddity, but in 4.6.1.0.

Quote:
20100326T014619.822024>R,IAU,PSE,106.0700,4000000,17:13:01,107.5900,400,17:13:01,14,4,
20100326T014619.822024>R,IAU,NMS,0,0,17:13:01,0,0,17:13:01,14,4,
20100326T014619.822024>R,IAU,BSE,0,0,17:13:01,0,0,17:13:01,14,4,
20100326T014619.822024>R,IAU,CSE,0,0,17:13:01,0,0,17:13:01,14,4,
20100326T014619.822024>R,IAU,CHX,0,0,17:13:01,0,0,17:13:01,14,4,
20100326T014619.822024>R,IAU,NYSE,0,0,17:13:01,0,0,17:13:01,14,4,
20100326T014619.822024>R,IAU,PSE,106.0700,4000000,17:13:01,107.5900,400,17:13:01,14,4,
20100326T014619.823000>R,IAU,NMS,0,0,17:13:01,0,0,17:13:01,14,4,
20100326T014619.823000>R,IAU,BSE,0,0,17:13:01,0,0,17:13:01,14,4,
20100326T014619.823000>R,IAU,CSE,0,0,17:13:01,0,0,17:13:01,14,4,
20100326T014619.823000>R,IAU,CHX,0,0,17:13:01,0,0,17:13:01,14,4,
20100326T014619.823000>R,IAU,NYSE,0,0,17:13:01,0,0,17:13:01,14,4,
20100326T014619.823000>R,IAU,PSE,106.0700,4000000,17:13:01,107.5900,400,17:13:01,14,4,

While 4.6.1.0 behaves correctly the vast majority of the time, it appears that when there starts to be zero bidsz/asksz regional entries, it starts sending them even if no updates have occurred. It is unclear to me if this is the same bug reported earlier in the thread. This only seems to be an issue with some stocks too, not all of them.

IQFeed Developer Support » Regional quotes on no change Mar 25, 2010 08:30 PM (Total replies: 11)

Any idea when there might be a beta out with a fix for this?

--Thank you

IQFeed Developer Support » Regional quotes on no change Feb 18, 2010 07:34 AM (Total replies: 11)

I went ahead and downgraded back down to 4.6.1.0 last night just to be on the safe side, which has nicely taken care of the regional spam and the CPU issue.

IQFeed Developer Support » Regional quotes on no change Feb 17, 2010 04:01 PM (Total replies: 11)

Dual Quad Core 2.66ghz, 4gb ram, Windows Server 2008 R2, 6mbit sustained, 12mbit burstable downlink, 1mbit uplink. This usually is not anywhere close to saturated, except for bursts during open/closing. The data processing side of my custom C app has a thread dedicated to decode/dispatch (with the critical sections written mostly using pointer arithmetic) before sending it to other threads for processing.

IQFeed Developer Support » Regional quotes on no change Feb 17, 2010 02:49 PM (Total replies: 11)

Is there any way to tell if it is having to drop server data or to up the queue size? It seems to be saturating an entire core which concerns me a bit.

IQFeed Developer Support » Regional quotes on no change Feb 17, 2010 02:34 PM (Total replies: 11)

If IQFeed gets overloaded does it start dropping data or does it eventually catch up? (While my application can handle the data, do I need to worry about IQFeed getting saturated trying to generate that many regional quotes? Right now it is trying to push 6-7 MB/S peak over one connection).

IQFeed Developer Support » Regional quotes on no change Feb 17, 2010 09:03 AM (Total replies: 11)

I have not yet had a chance to downgrade, but the big giveaway that led me down this path was the amount of data sent from IQFeed to my application. Usually it is around ~10-20gb, with at most ~29gb on a very high volume day. Yesterday ( I upgraded over the weekend) it was ~77gb. The amount of total data sent over the internet connection was the same, however, at around ~3.7gb.

This is a log snippet. The time in front is the time the message was received by my application. It is almost like it is resending the entire regional table every time anything changes.

Quote:
20100217T145523.207862>R,INTC,PSE,20.8000,16200,09:55:10,20.8100,17300,09:55:10,14,4,5,
20100217T145523.207862>R,INTC,PHLX,20.6000,2000,09:55:10,20.9500,1000,09:55:10,14,4,8,
20100217T145523.207862>R,INTC,,20.8000,1700,09:55:10,20.8100,700,09:55:10,14,4,10,
20100217T145523.207862>R,INTC,,20.8000,11800,09:55:10,20.8100,6700,09:55:10,14,4,11,
20100217T145523.207862>R,INTC,,20.8000,2400,09:55:10,20.8100,1400,09:55:10,14,4,12,
20100217T145523.207862>R,INTC,,20.7900,200,09:55:10,20.8200,100,09:55:10,14,4,13,
20100217T145523.207862>R,INTC,,20.8000,100,09:55:10,20.8100,1600,09:55:10,14,4,15,
20100217T145523.207862>R,INTC,,20.8000,3900,09:55:10,20.8100,4300,09:55:10,14,4,16,
20100217T145523.207862>R,INTC,,20.8000,9400,09:55:10,20.8100,6000,09:55:10,14,4,18,
20100217T145523.207862>Q,INTC,20.8000,6413526,100,20.8000,20.8100,17400,17300,09:55:10b,t,
20100217T145523.207862>R,INTC,PSE,20.8000,17400,09:55:10,20.8100,17300,09:55:10,14,4,5,
20100217T145523.207862>R,INTC,PHLX,20.6000,2000,09:55:10,20.9500,1000,09:55:10,14,4,8,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,1700,09:55:10,20.8100,700,09:55:10,14,4,10,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,11800,09:55:10,20.8100,6700,09:55:10,14,4,11,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,2400,09:55:10,20.8100,1400,09:55:10,14,4,12,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.7900,200,09:55:10,20.8200,100,09:55:10,14,4,13,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,100,09:55:10,20.8100,1600,09:55:10,14,4,15,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,3900,09:55:10,20.8100,4300,09:55:10,14,4,16,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,9400,09:55:10,20.8100,6000,09:55:10,14,4,18,
20100217T145523.208350>Q,INTC,20.8000,6413526,100,20.8000,20.8100,17400,17200,09:55:10b,t,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,PSE,20.8000,17400,09:55:10,20.8100,17200,09:55:10,14,4,5,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,PHLX,20.6000,2000,09:55:10,20.9500,1000,09:55:10,14,4,8,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,1700,09:55:10,20.8100,700,09:55:10,14,4,10,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,11800,09:55:10,20.8100,6700,09:55:10,14,4,11,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,2400,09:55:10,20.8100,1400,09:55:10,14,4,12,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.7900,200,09:55:10,20.8200,100,09:55:10,14,4,13,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,100,09:55:10,20.8100,1600,09:55:10,14,4,15,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,3900,09:55:10,20.8100,4300,09:55:10,14,4,16,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,9400,09:55:10,20.8100,6000,09:55:10,14,4,18,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,PSE,20.8000,17400,09:55:10,20.8100,17200,09:55:10,14,4,5,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,PHLX,20.6000,2000,09:55:10,20.9500,1000,09:55:10,14,4,8,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,1700,09:55:10,20.8100,700,09:55:10,14,4,10,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,11800,09:55:10,20.8100,6700,09:55:10,14,4,11,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,2400,09:55:10,20.8100,1400,09:55:10,14,4,12,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.7900,200,09:55:10,20.8200,100,09:55:10,14,4,13,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,100,09:55:10,20.8100,1600,09:55:10,14,4,15,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,3900,09:55:10,20.8100,4300,09:55:10,14,4,16,
20100217T145523.208350>R,INTC,,20.8000,9400,09:55:10,20.8100,5900,09:55:10,14,4,18,

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IQFeed Developer Support » Regional quotes on no change Feb 17, 2010 01:37 AM (Total replies: 11)

I am pretty sure this is a result of 4.7.0.9, as since then the amount of data processed seems to have risen significantly (2-3x). I seem to be getting regional quotes for a market center, and then within a few regional quotes, the exact same regional quote again. As of now almost all of my IQFEED->Application communications are being consumed by regional updates that do not convey any new data, and I know it was not this bad before I upgraded.

Thanks